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The entire family of seven African Americans including parents, infant in arms, and four children were killed, with the event reported by national newspapers. Governor Augustus E. Willson of Kentucky strongly condemned the murders and promised a reward for information leading to prosecution. No one was ever prosecuted.
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
A pet wallaby escaped and was captured on home security cameras hopping around Eastern Kentucky for several days before being returned to its owners. Home security camera captures video of escaped ...
Leonard Woods was a 30-year-old Black miner who lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.Jenkins was a new company town in Letcher County, built to accommodate the workers of the Consolidation Coal Company, or Consol, which was opening mines on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky, and had managed to get the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to extend its line to serve its needs.
A Kentucky man was struck and killed Wednesday while trying to load a disabled vehicle onto a wrecker, according to Kentucky State Police. The collision happened in Bath County.
The son of a man who was murdered inside a Kentucky federal prison says investigators have long known who was responsible for his father’s death and questions why prosecution took so long ...
Larry Lamont White (born March 30, 1958) is an American serial killer who fatally shot three women in Louisville, Kentucky, from June to July 1983. Originally convicted of two murders, for which he was sentenced to death , his sentence was later overturned, and White was paroled.
Ferguson was born in Clinton County, Kentucky, on the Tennessee border, the oldest of ten children. This area was known as the Kentucky Highlands and had more families who were yeomen farmers and generally owned few slaves. Like his father, Ferguson became a farmer but also earned a reputation for violence even before the American Civil War. He ...